Katarina Spasic analyses recent research that indicates cooperatives manage resources just as efficiently For a year, from 1934-35, Simone Weil, the French philosopher and activist, worked at a factory as a manual laborer to deepen her understanding of the working class. In the aftermath of this experience, she wrote in her biography, “That contact with
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Event – Bonded: Migrant Workers, Global Capitalism, and the Return of Un-Freedom
Public lecture by Natasha Iskander – Associate Professor of Public Policy, Wagner School, New York University In modern capitalist production systems around the world, forced labor arrangements are used in specific and deliberate ways to meet production challenges. In contemporary Qatar, forced labor arrangements erase the skill contribution of workers — an aspect of production
Event – Public Choice Theory: The Billionaires’ Bid to Undermine Democracy
Public lecture by Nancy MacLean – Professor of History, Duke University Today’s plutocracy is the product of decades of right-wing activism that not only changed who rules, but also the fundamental rules of democratic governance. Billionaires did not launch this project; a white economist in the embattled Jim Crow South did. But when Nobel-Prize winning economist
5/8 | Whiteness as Property, Choice, and Citizenship: Raced Rights and Inequality in Public Education under Neoliberalism
Public lecture by Ujju Aggarwal – Postdoctoral Fellow, National Academy of Education, Spencer Foundation May 8, 6pm Wolff Conference Room, 6 E 16th St Room 1103 Since Brown v. Board of Education, public education has been both the most universally accessible and yet also the most unequal institution in the United States. Public education
Event – Black Capitalism
Public lecture by Nathan Connolly – Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University The Civil Property Rights Movement This talk highlights the persistence of economic arguments within black movements, both from the perspective of the labor-left – the typical protagonists in civil rights “origins” stories – and from the point of view of black entrepreneurs and professionals, who
3/27 | Neoliberalism and the Paradox of Persistent Racial Disparity
Public Lecture by Darrick Hamilton – Associate Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, Milano and the New School for Social Research Black Americans with high levels of educational attainment still, paradoxically, exhibit large disparities in economic and health outcomes. The post-racial politics of personal responsibility and tropes of ‘neoliberal paternalism’ discourage public responsibility for the
Event – Enslavement to Precarity? African Labor History
Public Lecture by Fred Cooper – Professor of History, New York University How does one write about Africa in the context of capitalism and colonization without reducing Africa to the victim of historical processes determined elsewhere? This talk will chart scholarly perspectives and sketch some of the multiple ways in which the history of capitalism
2/13 | The Plantation Complex and the Force Economy: Liberalism and the Racial Mode of Production, 1830-1900
Public Lecture by Kris Manjapra – Associate Professor of History and Interim Director, Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Tufts University During the so-called Age of Liberalism (1830-1900), forced labor spread across the globe. Amidst discourses of abolition, the monumental migration of ‘indentured’ laborers from Asia to the West Indies was matched
Event – Slaves: The Capital that Made Capitalism
Public Lecture by Julia Ott – Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, The New School Most theories of capitalism set aside slavery as something utterly distinct because under slavery, workers do not labor for a wage. An historical and empirical investigation, however, reveals that the factory
Event – A New Social Contract: Guaranteeing Dignity in a Precarious Economy
Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 6:00 pm Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall 55 West 13th Street, Room I-202, New York, NY 10011 Please join us as we kick off the 2017 Henry Cohen Lecture series at the Milano School. The United States is one of the wealthiest countries the world has seen,